2013 Midsummer Fire Festival Guide (June 21 - July 5)

Огненный солнцеворот is here! Embrace the spirit of summer by honoring your faction's flames and desecrating the enemy's! Throughout the world, there are bonfires surrounded by questgivers and NPCs that sell summery items in exchange for Пылающий цвет. There are commoner NPCs of all races that can be found lingering around the major cities that will give you a short quest to turn in at one of the main bonfire camps to get you started.

Midsummer Fire Festival begins on June 21 at 11:00 AM (PST) and runs until July 5 at 11:00 AM (PST).

Festival Bonfires

Bonfires have been spread across all of Azeroth, inviting players to honor their own faction's and desecrate those of their enemies! To honor one of your faction's bonfires, simply speak to the nearby Flame Keeper and Flame Warden and complete the quest. To desecrate an opposing faction bonfire, the quest will instead be available at the bonfire itself, where you can extinguish it for your reward.

Not only does visiting these fires grant a good bit of money for max level characters, it is also extremely good experience for pre-90 characters making this holiday very helpful for leveling alts.

You are also challenged to steal the four capital city flames of the opposing faction!

Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, Outland, Northrend, Pandaria

Honor the Flame! - Awards Пылающий цвет x5, and at level 90Start & End:Flame Keeper located near each bonfire of your faction.This quest can only be completed once per location at festival fires belonging to your faction.

Complete List

Keep in mind that every Cataclysm zone has their own bonfires. We have included them in our coordinates by continent.

Tip: Clicking on the coordinates in the tables below will open a map of the bonfire's location in a lightbox! To view your character and your mouse cursor's coordinates on the in-game world map you can use our very own addon, the Wowhead Looter (type /wl loc map), and contribute data in the process!

Neutral Bonfires

In 2011, neutral Earthen Ring bonfires were added to Cataclysm zones. These bonfires can only be honored, and will award 15 Пылающий цвет upon doing so. Zones which feature an Earthen Ring Bonfire do not feature separate Alliance / Horde bonfires.

Legend

Neutral Bonfires

In 2011, neutral Earthen Ring bonfires were added to Cataclysm zones. These bonfires can only be honored, and will award 15 Пылающий цвет upon doing so. Zones which feature an Earthen Ring Bonfire do not feature separate Alliance / Horde bonfires.

In addition to awarding easy gold and Пылающий цвет, there are a number of player buffs that are available from the various festival fire locations.

Ribbon Pole

At each bonfire you will find a ribbon pole which creates a colorful streamer to your hand and causes your character to twirl very quickly. While doing this, you will gain the Танец с лентами buff which increases experience gain by 10% for 3 minutes, stacking 3 more minutes on for every 3 seconds you remain twirling at the ribbon pole. The buff stacks up to a one hour duration and can stack with rested experience, so get it while it's hot! If a player throws a Пылающий цвет into a festival fire, all surrounding players will gain the Праздник Огня - неистовство buff, granting +3% physical/spell critical strike and reflecting Fire damage to attackers for 1 hour, and scales with your player level.

As if that wasn't enough, if you happen to be at a festival flame that has been extinguished and no longer burns, tossing a Пылающий цвет into it will grant a zone-wide buff Благословение костра which gives your faction's players a 30% chance to inflict 10 Fire damage on any melee, ranged, or spell attack, increasing by 10 Fire damage per level.

Boss: Lord Ahune

Starting with 2010's edition of the festival, Blizzard has changed the way seasonal bosses are accessed. In previous years, a quest would lead you to a dungeon where you would find that event's boss and were able to summon him a limited number of times via quests to farm items. However, nowadays the seasonal boss encounter can be accessed through the Dungeon Finder tool, and related quests now being found inside of the dungeon. Players must be at least level 89 to queue for Ahune.

Any special items that dropped off a seasonal boss in addition to his normal drop table (such as mounts from Аптекарь Хаммел or Всадник без головы) will now only have a chance to drop from a loot bag which is awarded upon killing the boss for the first time per day. Players can only receive a single loot bag per day, but will be able to re-queue for the boss in order to farm the more common drops. This means no more hours upon hours of farming for the most rare of items--every player in the party will have a chance to get a rare item out of the loot bag once per day!

Upon entering Узилище, rather than having to do a quest to summon Ahune, you must first defeat the Naga who defend the Ice Stone. Use the Ice Stone to summon the boss, defeat the boss, and collect the loot from the chest! Players who have never before defeated Ahune can loot Осколки Ахуна from the chest, which starts a quest that turns in at the nice tauren lady nearby and awards 20 Пылающий цвет and your choice of Гербовая накидка летних небес or Гербовая накидка летнего пламени! This quest was once again not reset, so if you've already done it in the past you are out of luck.

Torch Throwing

Quests

Жонглирование факелами or Жонглирование факеламиStart & End:Пламеглотатель-виртуоз or Огнеглотатель-виртуозYou must aim and throw Тренировочные факелы at a series of braziers found nearby the questgiver. A brazier is only considered an active target when it has an arrow above it that looks like a ; non-marked braziers will not count towards the quest objective. When you use the torch you will be given a small targeting circle that you must place over an active brazier and click to toss. You are given x seconds to hit 8 targets, and if you are successful you are awarded with Пылающий цвет x5 and gold (and experience, if you are lower than 90).

Поймай факел! or Поймай факел!Start & End:Пламеглотатель-виртуоз or Огнеглотатель-виртуозYou must light the Незажженные факелы at the bonfire, which will then toss a flaming torch into the air. You have to follow the shadow of the torch, and then wait where it will land to "catch" it. If you miss, but are near where it lands you will suffer fire damage which can add up pretty quick if you're not yet used to the quest. When you catch the torch, there will be a very short delay before you will automatically toss it back up into the air, only this time it will travel a much shorter distance. You must "catch" the torch four times in a row to complete the quest, and you will be rewarded with Факел жонглера x5 and Пылающий цвет x5.

The Guide will then give you the next part of the quest, Невинный маскарад for which you are given an orb that changes you into a Crawler for three minutes. In your new disguise, you must travel northwest of the entrance of Непроглядная Пучина. You will know you're going the right way if you periodically find blue-flamed torches, and eventually a small encampment on the shore. While disguised, witness the exchange between the naga and the Заклинательница льда Бриата until the quest completes. When it is finished, you can move out of range of the mobs and cancel the disguise, and summon the Проводник из Служителей Земли once again. This time, upon relaying the information, the guide will give you the quest Сообщи старейшинам, requesting that you return to an Старейшина Служителей Земли and report your findings.

Once you have returned to an Старейшина Служителей Земли, the quest chain will complete and either one or two quests will become available, depending on your level. For characters level 22 and above, a repeatable daily quest will open up. The quest is called Striking Back, and depending on your level range you will be given a single objective at a location in Azeroth or Outland.

When you turn in that quest she will give the quest Ахун явился! and ask that you find Лума Мать Небес, who is located a bit further into the instance. Finally, Luma will give you the quest Призовите Ахуна, granting you an Тотем магмы Служителей Земли allowing you to (you guessed it) summon Ахун. Use the totem at the Ice Stone located just beyond Luma and defeat Ahune to complete the quest.

Achievements

Хранитель огня or Страж огняThis achievement can be found in the main World Events achievement category and is awarded upon completion of every one of the Midsummer Fire Festival achievements. This achievement awards the player title Flame Keeper or Flame Warden (depending on faction) and is a requirement towards completion of Долгое и странное путешествие which rewards the beautiful Аметистовый протодракон.

Король Огненного СолнцеворотаTo obtain this achievement you must complete the quest Награда вора (Alliance), which requires you to sneak into the four major cities of your opposing faction to 'steal' their festival flames. Details on stealing the flames can be found above.

Жонглер факеламиFor this achievement, purchase at least 10 Факел жонглера from a Midsummer vendor, and juggle them 40 times within 15 seconds while in Dalaran. Hotkey the torches and click the ground below your character to juggle them in place!

Комментарии

Комментарий от SpeedLancer

Just wondering, since they don't appear to have an armor class, if the festival clothes are mogable and if so to what classes of armor.

Комментарий от CalaelenDT

on 2013-06-21T09:20:37-05:00

Just wondering, since they don't appear to have an armor class, if the festival clothes are mogable and if so to what classes of armor.

Only Uncommon (Green) quality items and above can be used for transmog, so no, the festival gear cannot be used for transmog.

Комментарий от BrightBrown

on 2013-06-21T09:21:42-05:00

So, no special mount drop from Ahune?

Комментарий от Runeweaver

on 2013-06-21T09:38:08-05:00

So, no special mount drop from Ahune?

Unfortunately not, though the Scythe and companion are quite nice.The enchant though is nice as well, plus the tabard.

Комментарий от Mirrodin

on 2013-06-21T10:02:40-05:00

I can't find the fire to honor it in Halfhill in valley of the four winds!, where exactly is it ? I am Horde.

Комментарий от KennyCommenter

on 2013-06-21T10:03:38-05:00

What ever happened to the really cool lookin Helmets? Like Helm of Eternal Winter, which was datamined for 5.2 along with a fiery version. The best guess most people had was a reward from something related to Mid-summer festival, as there was a fire and ice version. They seemed really cool and I wanted to see how to get either :/

Комментарий от mrneko

Комментарий от Rystrave

Though there's nothing new, the chance for a new cloak will help gear off specs and alts.

Комментарий от kyler999

on 2013-06-21T10:20:20-05:00

sadly there never has been a mount but you can get a pet

Комментарий от rodalpho

on 2013-06-21T10:25:39-05:00

The cloak should be ilvl 502, so it has some actual use. Last year's items were 353, equivalent to the Zul dungeons added in that patch, the highest-end non organized raid content. Similarly, today's highest-end non organized raid content is LFR.

Oh, and the scythe remains a transmog item only, too, since it has no intellect on it. Shame.

Комментарий от perculia

on 2013-06-21T10:29:44-05:00

EU players have been commenting it's by the Halfhill Market--I will confirm when it's up in the US.

Комментарий от Random54564

on 2013-06-21T10:37:07-05:00

So are the only real changes the Flames in Pandaria, and the fact that you have to be 89 to fight Ahune?

Комментарий от Lillycat

on 2013-06-21T10:41:14-05:00

Unfortunately they don't seem to have updated the bag yet. I got the Frostscythe in it just now, and it was only ilevel 353.

Комментарий от lankybrit

on 2013-06-21T10:46:10-05:00

I can't find the fire to honor it in Halfhill in valley of the four winds!, where exactly is it ? I am Horde.

The festival doesn't start until 11am today.

Cheers.

Комментарий от Nulgar

on 2013-06-21T10:55:57-05:00

Can anyone confirm that 89 is the minimum level to queue?

Only Uncommon (Green) quality items and above can be used for transmog, so no, the festival gear cannot be used for transmog.

Wrong. An item needs to have stats - which are of course usually found only on items uncommon or better.

The green "bonus" armor on the armor items does in fact count as a stat and does qualify them for Transmogrification. However, they are miscellaneous, and thus incompatible with cloth/leather/mail/plate.This kind of item is only compatible with other misc items, should they have bonus armor, an Equip: effect (but notUse:) or in rare cases even base stats. Гномская мыслительная шапка seems to be the only one I can find right now - Бандана Кишанаonce had resistances. This is a rough list of qualifying items. No other shoulders, and note that items without a binding type can only be used as a source, but can't be transmogrified themselves.

Комментарий от perculia

on 2013-06-21T11:05:55-05:00

I've alerted various people to the Frostscythe issue--perhaps it will get hotfixed.

Комментарий от DarQuing

on 2013-06-21T11:06:32-05:00

I've heard that the event goes live around 11am PST.

Комментарий от perculia

on 2013-06-21T11:14:55-05:00

It's live on EU realms already and as noted in the guide, does start around 11 am PST for the US :)

Комментарий от BrightBrown

on 2013-06-21T11:36:41-05:00

It's live on EU realms already and as noted in the guide, does start around 11 am PST for the US :)

Ah, so that explains why I did not see Ahune listed in DF!

BTW, big fan of the work & effort you put into wowhead! Who knows, maybe you & I will end up on a virtual realm and slay some dragons together!

Комментарий от Anukai

on 2013-06-21T11:38:35-05:00

How can the spirit of summer and frigid frostling pets be new to 2013? wtf